Velva Mattix has written:

'I cried ... and He answered' -- subject(s): Baptists, Biography, Friedreich's ataxia

Inherited degenerative disease. Causes sclerosis of the dorsal and lateral columns of the spinal cord. Onset in childhood or early adolesence..

Reduction in lifespan from FA complications is also quite variable. Average age at death is in the mid-thirties, but may be as late as the mid-sixties

researchers at the University of California at San Diego reported in 2002 that coenzyme Q10 appears to slow the progress of Parkinson's disease , Friedreich's ataxia, and other conditions

Nikolaus Friedreich was born in 1825.